As someone who cherishes the power of root privs, I'd still like to make a point for alternative solutions that came up like distros such as GrapheneOS or CalyxOS or non-root filtering options via VPN.
If it weren't for backups I could manage my everyday life without root. For all other cases I would root and later unroot my phone via an OTA update :D
https://github.com/schnatterer/rooted-graphene/Hopefully GrapheneOS deliver on their promise to provide a better backup solutions than seedvault.